Berenson-Mason Cup?

I don't like winning the "Mason" Cup. Love winning the CCHA but something about winning a trophy named after a Sparty Legend is irksome. Mason was a great coach and reportedly a great guy but you don't see the Big Ten naming the football trophy after Woody or Bo.

meh. Mason was instrumental in developing and supporting the CCHA when it was created in 1980 or so. so it's more about his role in helping to create and sustain the league than anything else.

FWIW, an equitable comparison b/t mason and red would be to take Mason's time in EL only vs Red in A2.

mason started as a HC at St Lawrence when he was like 28. red started in A2 at age 44 or so.

Isn't Red at 699 wins? That's what the announcers said at the end of last night's broadcast.

Getting rid of the Mason Cup is just more incentive to bring hockey to the Big Ten.

Red's definitely an icon but, although certainly widely known and respected and obviously extremely successful, I believe his direct influence is more limited to one team (us) and so it's not likely nor necessarily fitting for his name to be added to the trophy. Now, if they wanted to rename the NCAA tournament in honor of the guy who's been in it for 20 years straight, that might be more appropriate.

Red has never gotten the respect that he deserves in this conference. It's an indictment of the CCHA that the only 3 time Coach of the Year award winners are Ron Mason and Enrico Blasi. In the 25 years that Red has coached Michigan, he has turned us into the most consistent program in the conference and has won Coach of Year...only twice (1994 & 2007). Blasi has been coach at Miami 10 years and won 3 times? Blasi has proved himself to be a great coach and built himself a solid program, but that is ridiculous.

I never had that much respect for Mason as a coach. Certainly he was instrumental in getting the CCHA off the ground, but his glory years in the 80s came when the rest of the league was struggling. The moment programs like Michigan, LSSU, ND, and Miami began to emerge, MSU suddenly became an also-ran.

Red's problem is that he has a big ego and speaks his mind. I don't think it's ever sat well with the conference leadership, particularly when Mason was a conference insider and Red would never pay him any kind of obeisance to him.

I think Red's bigger problem is that his teams are always more talented and picked int eh top 2 in the preseason. thus, expectations set the bar so high that coach of the year awards are essentially out of reach. whatever.

definitely deserves something named after him. I don't know how the CCHA/NCAA manages it, but the guy is a legend and has been instrumental in the growth and maintenance of college hockey, with his consistent insistence in the value of an education and not leaving until you are ready. How many coaches that have the respect and NHL credentials that Red does even exist? Just having him coaching NCAA is a huge weapon in college hockey's arsenal. I would assume there's more he's done that we/I don't know about too, but all those important type people talk about everything he's done for the sport, so I think he deserves every bit the honor Mason does. Mason was an incredible coach, but so is Red and they've both made huge contributions. I think it would a travesty to let him just pass into retirement with nothing. Make it one of the individual awards, make it the regular season championship (he's certainly won enough of those), create a new one, but the guy deserves something. He deserves something in-house too. You can't rename Yost obviously, but some sort of team award, scholarship, something.

How refreshing. Actual diary content. +1 on all accounts.

MSU has been an also-ran the last three seasons, too.

Whenever we've won the 'Mason Cup,' (henceforth referred to correctly as the CCHA Championship), I notice that we also tape over Mason with "Berenson." :)

The real telling sign would be total number of CCHA regular season and/or tournament championships, wouldn't it?

I just wanted to comment on the post of Mason being a good guy. I grew up in the Lansing area and Mason's reputation is less then respectable. I have not personally seen him in a couple years but I hear when he is not fishing (which is most of the year) he is at the bar and is pretty much an alcoholic. While he was coaching he was know as quite the womanizer. I don't care personally about this stuff, but just stating he is not know as a great guy or anything in the Lansing area.